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Written by one of the world's foremost authorities on East Central Europe, Return to Diversity has proven to be an invaluable guide for readers of modern European history and politics. This third edition introduces a new co-author, Nancy M. Wingfield, and has been fully updated to take into account recent and ongoing developments in the region.

Joseph Rothschild is the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science and an Associate of the Institute on East Central Europe at Columbia University. A member of the Editorial Board of Political Science Quarterly, he has written several other books on East Central Europe, including The Communist Party of Bulgaria (1959), Pilsudski's Coup d'Etat (1966), East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars (1974), and Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework (1981). Nancy M. Wingfield is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the editor of Nationalities Papers and the author of Minority Politics in a Multinational State: The German Social Democrats in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938 (1989).

Preface	p. ix
Preface to the Second Edition	p. x
Preface to the First Edition	p. xi
The Interwar Background	p. 1
World War II	p. 23
The Communists Come to Power	p. 75
The Dialectics of Stalinism and Titoism	p. 125
The Revenge of the Repressed: East Central Europe Reasserts Itself	p. 147
A Precarious Stalemate	p. 191
The Various Endgames	p. 227
The Postcommunist Decade	p. 265
Notes	p. 303
Suggested Readings	p. 317
Index	p. 325
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Return to Diversity A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II

Return to Diversity A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II

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